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Withdraw

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.

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Verb group 18

Adjourn 84% connected

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of…

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Adjourn 84% connected

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of…

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Recede 84% connected

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

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Recede 84% connected

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

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Retire 84% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Retire 84% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Retreat 84% connected

The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

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Retreat 84% connected

The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

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Seclude 84% connected

To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

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Seclude 84% connected

To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

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Sequester 84% connected

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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Sequester 84% connected

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Cease 76% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

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Close 76% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Discontinue 76% connected

To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

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Disown 76% connected

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly diso…

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Fatigue 76% connected

Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

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Fold 76% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Insulate 76% connected

To make an island of.

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Isolate 76% connected

To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

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Jade 76% connected

A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamenta…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Pall 76% connected

Same as Pawl.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Quit 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Relinquish 76% connected

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Renounce 76% connected

To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…

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Repudiate 76% connected

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

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Retire 76% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tire 76% connected

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Weary 76% connected

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.

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Manner of action 109

Amputate 76% connected

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

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Aspirate 76% connected

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

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Bail 76% connected

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Bone 76% connected

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Bur 76% connected

Alt. of Burr

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Burl 76% connected

To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

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Burr 76% connected

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also,…

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Cancel 76% connected

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Cheque 76% connected

See Check.

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Circumcise 76% connected

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

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Clean 76% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Cream 76% connected

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…

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Crumb 76% connected

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

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Decalcify 76% connected

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

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Decarbonize 76% connected

To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.

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Decarburize 76% connected

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

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Decorticate 76% connected

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.

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Defuse 76% connected

To disorder; to make shapeless.

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Dehorn 76% connected

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

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Delete 76% connected

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

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Delve 76% connected

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

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Depilate 76% connected

To strip of hair; to husk.

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Dig 76% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Dip 76% connected

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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Disburden 76% connected

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve.

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Discase 76% connected

To strip; to undress.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Disembowel 76% connected

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

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Dislodge 76% connected

To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislo…

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Dismantle 76% connected

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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Disrobe 76% connected

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of…

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Divert 76% connected

To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its u…

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Divest 76% connected

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Dredge 76% connected

Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iro…

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Drop 76% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Empty 76% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Enucleate 76% connected

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

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Eviscerate 76% connected

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

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Excavate 76% connected

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

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Exenterate 76% connected

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.

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Expectorate 76% connected

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

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Extirpate 76% connected

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumo…

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Fan 76% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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Flick 76% connected

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

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Free 76% connected

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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Gut 76% connected

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

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Harvest 76% connected

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hollow 76% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Hull 76% connected

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

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Husk 76% connected

The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears…

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Lade 76% connected

To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

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Laden 76% connected

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart.

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Ladle 76% connected

A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

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Leach 76% connected

See 3d Leech.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Lose 76% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

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Muck 76% connected

abbreviation of Amuck.

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Overdraw 76% connected

To exaggerate; to overdo.

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Peel 76% connected

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Pit 76% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Prorogue 76% connected

To protract; to prolong; to extend.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Ream 76% connected

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

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Resect 76% connected

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

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Retreat 76% connected

The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

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Retrograde 76% connected

Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Scalp 76% connected

A bed of oysters or mussels.

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Scavenge 76% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

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Scoop 76% connected

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Shed 76% connected

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Shuck 76% connected

A shock of grain.

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Skim 76% connected

To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; t…

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Spoon 76% connected

See Spoom.

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stone 76% connected

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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String 76% connected

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larg…

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Suction 76% connected

The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

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Tap 76% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Tip 76% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Tusk 76% connected

Same as Torsk.

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Unburden 76% connected

To relieve from a burden.

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Uncase 76% connected

To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.

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Unclothe 76% connected

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.

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Undock 76% connected

To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

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Undress 76% connected

To divest of clothes; to strip.

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Unfriend 76% connected

One not a friend; an enemy.

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Unhinge 76% connected

To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

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Unlock 76% connected

To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

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Unpack 76% connected

To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.

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Unsaddle 76% connected

To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.

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Unstring 76% connected

To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.

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Unveil 76% connected

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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Weed 76% connected

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

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Winnow 76% connected

To separate chaff from grain.

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Detachment 74% connected

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

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Detachment 74% connected

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

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Drawee 74% connected

The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

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Drawee 74% connected

The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

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Drawer 74% connected

One who, or that which, draws

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Drawer 74% connected

One who, or that which, draws

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Withdrawal 74% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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Withdrawal 74% connected

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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Withdrawer 74% connected

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

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Withdrawer 74% connected

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

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Assemble 72% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Forgather 72% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Gather 72% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Meet 72% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Synonym 16

Adjourn 92% connected

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of…

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Crawfish 92% connected

Alt. of Crayfish

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Disengage 92% connected

To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…

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Draw 92% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Pull 92% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Recall 92% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Recede 92% connected

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Remove 92% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Retire 92% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Retreat 92% connected

The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

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Seclude 92% connected

To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

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Sequester 92% connected

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take pos…

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Sequestrate 92% connected

To sequester.

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Swallow 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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Unsay 92% connected

To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.

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